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[That One Girl]

Just now, filmlover said:

Wait until next weekend when people fight over the Smurfs being offensive to the Na'vi.

 

Then Fate of the Furious gets fights because it's offensive to discriminatory people.

[WrathOfHan]

1 hour ago, grim22 said:

 

 

 

That settles it then, @WrathOfHan is banned from creating weekend threads with punishment of death via our trained assassin @CJohn

[K1stpierre]

2 hours ago, baumer said:

Looks like @K1stpierre owes me a date Genie Bouchard style.

Pffff. Please. It's way to early to tell.

[TalismanRing]

3 minutes ago, K1stpierre said:

Pffff. Please. It's way to early to tell.

 

 

I'm rooting for you

[BadAtGender]

10 hours ago, Noctis said:

 

How on earth was FB racist?

 

It's a movie set in New York right in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance and yet has no black people.

 

 

6 hours ago, grey ghost said:

 

Did the original anime shit on fans cause that Major has blue eyes too.

 

Next thing you know people will be outraged Naruto is played by a blonde white kid.

 

The white-washing controversy is stupid. She's a robot in a post-racial, transhuman Japan. It doesn't matter if her ROBOT body has blue eyes (like the original anime, lol). 

 

I think there should be more Asian, A-list superstars but this is the wrong hill to die on.

 

 

 

No.

 

If they cast someone white in a hypothetical movie, sure, because Naruto isn't white. (Edit: Actually, I have to claim ignorance here. I've never seen Naruto. But I'm making an assumption that he isn't white based on similar things elsewhere. i.e. Usagi Tsukino isn't white, despite the blond hair and blue eyes presentation.)

 

Dumb argument. They could cast someone Japanese and give her blue eyes. I've got a friend who regularly wears colored contacts and yet never stops being Asian. The world might be a fantasy, but the message it presents in the real world is a really, really shitty one. There isn't a way you can twist the whitewashing to be good. "Maybe she wanted to be white" isn't a good way to push it.

 

If not this hill, what one. Besides, we're looking at a pretty catastrophic bomb, so I think there isn't a realm where you can defend the film, either.

 

 

6 hours ago, WrathOfHan said:

Idea: see the movie and find out.

 

I think I've adequately explained why that isn't going to happen, but to reiterate:

 

1. I've got a moral objection to the film.

2. Nothing I've heard about the film besides the whitewashing makes it sound good.

3. The trailers did nothing to convince me that it's visually appealing. i.e. they failed in the one aspect of marketing that people say is good.

Edited April 2, 2017 by DamienRoc

[Dementeleus]

2 minutes ago, DamienRoc said:

 

It's a movie set in New York right in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance and yet has no black people.

 

I have not seen FB, but it's certainly possible to be set in NY and not feature Harlem at all.

 

Granted, you'd probably see African-Americans as servants, doormen, etc.

[WrathOfHan]

4 minutes ago, DamienRoc said:

 

I think I've adequately explained why that isn't going to happen, but to reiterate:

 

1. I've got a moral objection to the film.

2. Nothing I've heard about the film besides the whitewashing makes it sound good.

3. The trailers did nothing to convince me that it's visually appealing. i.e. they failed in the one aspect of marketing that people say is good.

Then don't wonder why people like the visuals when you haven't seen it.

[K1stpierre]

10 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 

 

I'm rooting for you

 

Have faith  

[BadAtGender]

Just now, WrathOfHan said:

Then don't wonder why people like the visuals when you haven't seen it.

 

Are you saying they are significantly different than the visuals presented in the trailers?

[Dementeleus]

2 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Then don't wonder why people like the visuals when you haven't seen it.

 

1 minute ago, DamienRoc said:

 

Are you saying they are significantly different than the visuals presented in the trailers?

 

They aren't. It looks nice but also if you've seen your share of Scott, the Wachowskis, cyberpunk in general, etc you've basically already seen the same thing.

[grey ghost]

5 minutes ago, DamienRoc said:

 

It's a movie set in New York right in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance and yet has no black people.

 

 

 

No.

 

If they cast someone white in a hypothetical movie, sure, because Naruto isn't white. (Edit: Actually, I have to claim ignorance here. I've never seen Naruto. But I'm making an assumption that he isn't white based on similar things elsewhere. i.e. Usagi Tsukino isn't white, despite the blond hair and blue eyes presentation.)

 

Dumb argument. They could cast someone Japanese and give her blue eyes. I've got a friend who regularly wears colored contacts and yet never stops being Asian. The world might be a fantasy, but the message it presents in the real world is a really, really shitty one. There isn't a way you can twist the whitewashing to be good. "Maybe she wanted to be white" isn't a good way to push it.

 

If not this hill, what one. Besides, we're looking at a pretty catastrophic bomb, so I think there isn't a realm where you can defend the film, either.

 

 

 

I think I've adequately explained why that isn't going to happen, but to reiterate:

 

1. I've got a moral objection to the film.

2. Nothing I've heard about the film besides the whitewashing makes it sound good.

3. The trailers did nothing to convince me that it's visually appealing. i.e. they failed in the one aspect of marketing that people say is good.

 

We're supposed to take the white wash debate to the Ghost in the Shell thread.

[Water Bottle]

5 minutes ago, DamienRoc said:

 

It's a movie set in New York right in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance and yet has no black people.

 

That is fucking bullshit.

 

The movie was already bloated but you wanted it to shoehorn Harlem in even though it wouldnt have fit into the story or characters at all? Just so that the movie could pat black people on the back for the Harlem Reniassance or make a statement about racism?

 

Not everything is about race.

[TalismanRing]

Worldwide Box Office(Estimates) Weekend Ending April 02

 

#	Title	Weekend Box Office Estimate			Weekend Cume Release			Distributor
		Worldwide Wknd	Intl Wknd	Dom Wknd	Worldwide Cume	Intl Cume	Dom Cume	Intl	Terrs	Dom
1	Beauty And The Beast	$114,043,000	$66,500,000	$47,543,000	$876,259,842	$480,800,000	$395,459,842	DIS	56	DIS
2	Boss Baby, The	$85,200,000	$36,200,000	$49,000,000	$108,000,000	$59,000,000	$49,000,000	FOX	35	FOX
3	Ghost In The Shell	$59,100,000	$40,100,000	$19,000,000	$59,100,000	$40,100,000	$19,000,000	PAR	53	PAR
4	Kong: Skull Island	$43,400,000	$34,600,000	$8,800,000	$477,348,204	$329,500,000	$147,848,204	WB	68	WB
5	Power Rangers	$22,600,000	$8,100,000	$14,500,000	$97,762,170	$32,700,000	$65,062,170	LGF	71	LGF
6	Devotion Of Suspect X, The	$22,530,000	$22,200,000	$330,000	$22,695,000	$22,365,000	$330,000	MUL	5	CHALION
7	Smurfs: The Lost Village	$15,100,000	$15,100,000	-	$15,100,000	$15,100,000	-	SNY	32	-
8	Life	$11,925,000	$6,300,000	$5,625,000	$50,969,239	$28,600,000	$22,369,239	SNY	58	SNY
9	Logan	$11,400,000	$5,200,000	$6,200,000	$585,367,637	$373,500,000	$211,867,637	FOX	64	FOX
10	Extraordinary Mission	$8,200,000	$8,200,000	-	$8,375,000	$8,375,000	-	MULTICN	1	-
11	Get Out	$8,113,715	$2,300,000	$5,813,715	$167,187,675	$10,300,000	$156,887,675	UNI	17	UNI
12	Missing, The	$6,220,000	$6,220,000	-	$6,280,000	$6,280,000	-	MULTICN	1	-
13	Chips	5,455,000	1,400,000	4,055,000	18,267,366	3,900,000	14,367,366	WB	34	WB
14	Sing	5,342,945	5,200,000	142,945	613,532,140	343,600,000	269,932,140	UNI	30	UNI
15	Prison, The	4,650,000	4,650,000	-	13,940,000	13,940,000	-	MUL	2	-
16	Moana	3,917,000	3,800,000	117,000	626,664,777	378,100,000	248,564,777	DIS	17	DIS
17	Zookeeper's Wife, The	3,349,475	-	3,349,475	3,349,475	-	3,349,475	-	1	FOC
18	Lego Batman Movie, The	$3,140,000	$2,900,000	$240,000	$296,766,563	$124,600,000	$172,166,563	WB	44	WB
19	Split	2,689,850	2,600,000	89,850	269,915,325	132,500,000	137,415,325	UNI	36	UNI
20	Hidden Figures	2,225,000	1,800,000	425,000	223,815,673	56,000,000	167,815,673	FOX	18	FOX
21	Shack, The	2,170,000	-	2,170,000	53,085,007	-	53,085,007	-	1	LGF
22	You Wan Mei Wan	2,130,000	2,130,000	-	2,155,000	2,155,000	-	MULTICN	1	-
23	Cure For Wellness, A	2,025,000	2,025,000	-	24,206,986	16,100,000	8,106,986	FOX	9	FOX
24	3 Idiotas	1,760,000	1,760,000	-	1,760,000	1,760,000	-	VIDEOC	1	-
25	One Line	1,680,000	1,680,000	-	1,750,000	1,750,000	-	NEXENT	1	-

 

 

[BadAtGender]

4 minutes ago, Water Bottle said:

 

That is fucking bullshit.

 

The movie was already bloated but you wanted it to shoehorn Harlem in even though it wouldnt have fit into the story or characters at all? Just so that the movie could pat black people on the back for the Harlem Reniassance or make a statement about racism?

 

Not everything is about race.

 

The point is New York in the 1920s wasn't all white, yet the film is. There were a lot of black people in New York at the time.

[YM!]

37 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

 

Then Fate of the Furious gets fights because it's offensive to discriminatory people.

Nudists may be triggered by Captain Underpants.

[Water Bottle]

Just now, DamienRoc said:

 

The point is New York in the 1920s wasn't all white, yet the film is. There were a lot of black people in New York at the time.

 

There were lots of other people in New York in the 1920s that werent in the film as well. Not including them doesnt make the film racist.

[Noctis]

19 minutes ago, Telerian said:

 

I have not seen FB, but it's certainly possible to be set in NY and not feature Harlem at all.

 

Granted, you'd probably see African-Americans as servants, doormen, etc.

 

Yeah, that's what you'd see. But she had the President of the Magical Congress of the US a black female. 

[That One Girl]

4 minutes ago, YourMother said:

Nudists may be triggered by Captain Underpants.

 

Gonna get a disturbing amount of outcry from male strippers when Rough Night is released.  Scarlett at the focus of all the controversy this year.

[filmlover]

Just now, That One Guy said:

 

Gonna get a disturbing amount of outcry from male strippers when Rough Night is released.  Scarlett at the focus of all the controversy this year.

There already is.

 

https://www.themarysue.com/not-cool-rough-night-trailer/

[YM!]

1 minute ago, That One Guy said:

 

Gonna get a disturbing amount of outcry from male strippers when Rough Night is released.  Scarlett at the focus of all the controversy this year.

Emoji Movie may upset the most powerful consumers: Flip Phone users.